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TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.
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TIL That ACME in the Looney Tunes Cartoons was supposed to be ironic. Acme comes from a Greek word meaning "pinnacle" or "peak" implying "the peak of greatness" and that the product would be the best you could get. Any product with the name in the show was guaranteed to fail spectacularly.
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TIL That upon his death President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested to be buried in a standard issue $80 coffin while wearing his army uniform. Despite being one of the most decorated men in the military he was only buried in the medals he earned on D-Day.
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TIL that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall.
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TIL that when she was five years old, Tina Fey was slashed in the face with a knife by a random stranger.